Elk Grove author publishes cookbook with 100 pumpkin recipes

"For the Love of Pumpkins," a new cookbook by Marilyn Alice Tuckman, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.

"For the Love of Pumpkins" consists of 100 original and adapted pumpkin recipes using either fresh pumpkin, canned pumpkin or hulled pumpkin seeds - pepitas. Each recipe in this cookbook is accompanied by an original photograph.

The recipes cover a variety of soups, savory side dishes, light entrees, and snacks as well as pies, cookies, desserts, cakes, cupcakes, muffins and loaves.

Adding to the wide range of offerings is a finale category called Odds & Ends, which includes recipes that suggest an extra thing or two to do with a bit of left over pumpkin purée, a spare baking pumpkin, or seeds.

The book also provides useful information such as what to look for when buying pumpkins; how to seed and peel fresh pumpkin; pumpkin yields; how to make homemade pumpkin purée; how to roast, bake, microwave, boil, steam, and grill fresh pumpkin; how to both roast and toast pumpkin seeds; and more.

Since she was a girl in a suburban 4-H club, Marilyn Alice Tuckman has collected recipes - many of which are pumpkin recipes.

Tuckman is a sensory food taster for a large international company and a former quality control and laboratory technician for a major bakery and a condiment manufacturer.

She lives with her husband, Jeff, in Elk Grove.

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